Artist Statement

The science of infographics is an interesting beast. Infographics' level of success is always based on how much and how well they communicate their data, the classic form follows function. In this series, I reversed these roles, form is king and dictates what the infographic communicates. Welcome to the world of fictional visual information.

Why We Love It

"Nonsensical Infographic No. 1 and Nonsensical Infographic No. 2 are indeed beautiful representations of the far end of the scale of useful information, in that they are not relaying any data. There are, of course, infographics out there that actually impart handy stats and figures [...] but Chad's drawings delve furthest into the complete nonsense spectrum of info design. His designs are utterly fictitious—whatever information they may convey is up to us to determine, and therein lies the fun." —Sara Distin for 20x200

Our quoted dimensions are for the size of paper containing the images, not the printed image itself. We do not alter the aspect ratio, nor do we crop or resize the artists’ originals. All of our prints have a minimum border of .5 inches to allow for framing.

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Chad Hagen

Chad
Hagen
grew
up
at
the
edge
of
the
Great
Plains
of
the
Dakotas
and
received
his
BFA
from
Minnesota
State
University,
Moorhead.
He
has
been
a
graphic
designer
and
art
director
for
the
past
17
years
and
permanently
resides
in
Minneapolis.
He
has
had
his
artwork
and
illustration
published
in
Fortune,
TIME,
Scientific
American,
Wired and
the
New
York
Times.